Spec into Infantry

[CutterJohn]

Originally Posted by Bruttal

What I also find sad is ive always been able to respec when i wanted to well every 24hrs or whatever it is now think its 12, and pick something else up. and I recall them saying theres no current way to respect at this time and probably wont be at launch so what if i want to experience everything to see what am good at in ps2?. and ill admit am a below avrage player i do alot of support rolls because of this. but i also like getting in there and trying to get some kills mostly trying to brake into a base the back door front door top door any of that I find it the best action in ps1. so because of this its gonna take me prob 4 years to finish specing in support/grunt type stuff?. in 4 years and thats not counting if i wanna be a commander too.

Sorry I kinda went on a lil rant there. but really am hoping am wrong and it wont be that Hard but the way i see it going 4 years /sigh

The bad aspect is you'll be untrained. The good aspect is you'll be able to do most everything at a basic level. You won't have all the unlocks or gadgets, but enough to do the job reasonably well in a short time.

[Graywolves]

This makes me very curious. But doing the same thing all the time always got boring to me. If I were to quit progression in what I already was, I'd hope that I wouldn't have to lose that progress in order to try something else.

[Senyu]

From the sound of it you wont. From what I can understand you start speccing into the lets say the Pilot skill tree. But get bored after awhile and head over to equipment terminal or die. And load your Medic spec you have been working on in the skill tree. You can switch easily between the different roles. But it is up to you how much progress you put in each one.



Now my question is if you can spend a year speccing into a tank imagine working on multiple specs. Which now makes more sense being able to level up specs while offline. Which gives this question.

Are you able to level up multiple skills in various trees at the same time? And does playing the specific role only level up the role your playing (and if yes to first question) will the roles your not playing still progress in leveling at a slower rate as if your offline

[Brusi]

Originally Posted by Senyu

From the sound of it you wont. From what I can understand you start speccing into the lets say the Pilot skill tree. But get bored after awhile and head over to equipment terminal or die. And load your Medic spec you have been working on in the skill tree. You can switch easily between the different roles. But it is up to you how much progress you put in each one.

I'm still kinda assuming that the class or role you are currently playing is independent of the skill you currently have set to train at some console somewhere.

Originally Posted by Senyu

Now my question is if you can spend a year speccing into a tank imagine working on multiple specs. Which now makes more sense being able to level up specs while offline. Which gives this question.

In case you actually meant "Tank" as in the MMORPG concept of a tank, then i would say that I doubt you can spend a year just specialising on REXO health and armor. The "infantry tank" spec is basically a MAX unit anyway.

I assume there will be a shitload of skills for MAX armor progression (tank spec), a similar shitload of skills for medic, engy, hacking skills (support spec), a whole bunch of damage skills and tweaks for various infantry weapons (DPS spec) and then a few that are common to all infantry.

Originally Posted by Senyu

Are you able to level up multiple skills in various trees at the same time? And does playing the specific role only level up the role your playing (and if yes to first question) will the roles your not playing still progress in leveling at a slower rate as if your offline

If it is like EVE, i expect that you can only train one individual skill at a time, however you will most likely be able to switch between training different skills from any of the different areas, such as infantry health, vehicle top speed, mosquito radar range etc...

I would say if you can also train your skills while you are offline, like in EVE... then it is unlikely that you actually have to be playing a certain role in order to complete the time required to train a related skill.

[exLupo]

^ This is exactly how I see it working.

In addition, the stated skill acceleration based on play is probably a raw skillpoint multiplier (10% when actively in a fight for example) that would be applied to whatever skill you are training as opposed to the multitude of skills you'll actively be using minute to minute.